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Several companies boasting Big Four accounting firms as auditors have emerged as fraudulent, leading many to wonder what value auditors bring to an investors' understanding of a company. The big issue is that auditors have little obligation to detect fraud at companies they audit, and neither it seems does anyone else. Until they do, investors need to stop believing a Big Four sign-off is a seal of approval. In fact, for a system supposedly built with its own reputation in mind, developed markets have offered investors very little protection. -
The syndicated loan market is facing a schism in the way it deals with the transition away from Libor — and unless the famously ponderous market starts to co-ordinate fast, fissures will keep appearing as different regions stick by their favoured replacement benchmark rates.
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Short sellers who for years have complained that BaFin, the German financial markets regulator, ignored their criticisms of Wirecard, the collapsed payments company, and instead prosecuted the critics, have begun to be vindicated with the news that the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has opened a review into the organisation. By Silas Brown.
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The US Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) has updated its reference rate guidance for the move away from dollar Libor that removes the need to get a lending syndicate’s consent. But trade bodies on both sides of the Atlantic do not agree on the details, writes Mike Turner, and some lawyers claim that major issues still need to be addressed before the ARRC-recommended method can work.
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The US Alternative Reference Rates Committee (ARRC) has updated its reference rate language for the move away from dollar Libor, with the group now recommending loans that mature after the transition have an automatic replacement reference rate that does not need special consent to be imposed. But some legal experts warn that there are still major issues with adopting this approach.
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Andreas Petrie, who is thought of as being a key figure in cultivating the Schuldschein market into an established corporate alternative to bonds in Europe, is to retire at the end of the year.
